# Words That Can Hurt You

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**Created:** [January 19, 2021, 4:51pm UTC](https://eldraeverse.discourse.group/t/words-that-can-hurt-you/282 "2021-01-19T16:51:53Z")\
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Originally published at: [Words That Can Hurt You | The Eldraeverse](https://eldraeverse.com/2021/01/19/words-that-can-hurt-you/)  
   
Whatever one’s position on the dubious assumptions behind the cliché “sticks and stones may break my bones, but words shall never hurt me” and its unfortunate persistence in many societies, these are not assumptions which the Empire shares. Indeed, it has a fine selection of words to describe an entire taxonomy of words that can hurt you, sorted by the specific manners in which this is so. Today, though, we concentrate on one specific subset of these: the traälathkháln laras (from alathkháln, “the pain of new understanding”, and laras, “word”). These are the words which can hurt you because, Eldraeic…

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At some point, I should probably figure out the exact Eldraeic term for “motte-and-bailey argument”.